Question STALKER 2: rats seem capable of opening doors, and what's the most effective way to eliminate burers?
Question STALKER 2: rats seem capable of opening doors, and what's the most effective way to eliminate burers?
I was hiding behind a closed door in a building, avoiding an emission when rats entered the room. I eliminated them and sealed the door again, only to discover the rats reopened it. This repeated until all the rats were gone. These mutated creatures are remarkably intelligent.
Playing this game is quite challenging, especially when multiple burers (the telekinesis [removed] that resemble refugees from the Phantasm movies) appear at once. Without the help of friendly stalkers and enemy bandits, I wouldn’t have escaped alive. I had to flee for my life. I also encountered pseudodogs and snorks simultaneously; fortunately, they struggled to navigate around the large hole in the ground or again, I might have perished. In the original STALKER titles, I don’t recall fighting snorks in the garbage map (or burers) except in the underground dungeon in garbage.
I’m currently on a difficulty level just above rookie, making it significantly harder than any of the unmodified original versions.
If anyone has advice on defeating Burers, I’d be grateful. Facing one at a time means I must run for my life. I just hope I don’t encounter any chimeras soon.
To date, I’ve noticed FPS drops in the low 50s. Interestingly, my 9700k at 5.2Ghz never reaches full usage (neither is the core), and my 4090 isn’t the limiting factor—perhaps it’s my slow DDR4 memory or a sluggish PCIe 3.0 bus.
The Burer part at 17:28 can be addressed effectively; see the video for details.
Aeacus. The Burers can't remove your pistol from your hands, right? Does this rule for any pistol or just the weak one Skif begins with?
Used to be you could use your knife to kill a Burer face-to-face, but that seems no longer effective.
Can a Burer send your grenades back at you or simply block them?
Does STALKER 2 include all the maps from the previous three titles?
Is the wish bringer feature still available in the Chernobyl NPP?
For grenades, give it a shot.
Not exactly. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 doesn't merge all old maps directly. Instead, it presents a big, unified Zone full of recognizable spots from the original trilogy. Compared to previous titles, the game has completely reworked, redesigned, and reorganized areas, forming a continuous world rather than separate maps. This offers a refreshed experience with familiar locations such as Cordon, Pripyat, and Duga.
The game is extremely challenging, I've perished almost 90 times, mainly due to glitches — especially one particularly powerful anomaly that only becomes noticeable when you encounter it.
I'll require a superior weapon than the initial one to combat Burers; most people in the Zone joke about shooting them with Skif's pistol.
I'm thinking I need a much better pistol or machine-pistol because I can't kill even a single Burer with Skif's pistol. I've had some chances against Burers from behind cover or by bouncing grenades at them off walls so they explode near the Burer, but that requires a lot of grenades. Right now, if I encounter a Burer in an open area, my only choice is to run like a scared little girl.
If the game were a walk in the park, it wouldn't be enjoyable. However, it's the difficulty that makes it interesting, particularly when you manage to surpass it. Therefore, play more to collect experience. Experiment with various strategies, etc.
Aeacus, the Burers can throw grenades back at me. It's a shame STALKER 2 doesn't let you cook grenades.
Skif's pistol is slow to kill even one Burer—do you have any better options you'd suggest?
It's frustrating now I'm stuck with my 9700k build because I won't accept the high prices for DDR5 memory.
I don't play the game myself, so, i can't give you any additional tips based on my experience.
AsRock has released H610 chipset MoBo that has both, DDR4 and DDR5 RAM slots,
specs:
https://asrock.com/MB/Intel/H610M COMBO/index.vn.asp#Overview
So, if you would go with that MoBo, you could run DDR4 for time being and once DDR5 prices come down, pop out DDR4 RAM and install DDR5 in there. But you can't use the two at the same time.
Sadly, MoBo chipset is barebones (H610) and not good for high-end CPU. Best to use Core i3 with that.
Or you can upgrade to Intel 12th, 13th or 14th gen CPU and pair it with MoBo that supports DDR4. 2nd option is going with AMD AM4 platform, that also uses DDR4.
E.g i5-14600K will give you considerable uplift in performance over i7-9700K;
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR17aOw-x_A
@Aeacus
I was thinking about switching to AMD's Zen6. Who knows? Perhaps the cost of DDR5 RAM will decrease before AMD launches Zen6.